"Are you saying that the imperial court is going to send someone to Denglai to investigate, or are they all the servants of Dongchang?" Song Wenxian, who had just arrived in Beijing, raised his head, "Has the Guan Ningjun impeached our Dengzhou Town Tang?" ”

Zhang Dahui said in a deep voice: "It's only one day later than the Tang Bao that we impeached. ”

Song Wenxian nodded, "That's right, the old man specially made an appointment with them to send it together, and then quietly advanced it by a day." Since the imperial court has received it, why do you have to send someone to Denglai. ”

Song Wenxian frowned and lowered his head to think, Zhang Dahui said respectfully: "According to the person who reported to me, it was the emperor who scolded Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing, and he had to force them to go to Denglai, and the first thing to investigate was whether there was collusion between the two towns. In addition, Wang Chengen suddenly disappeared from me in the past few days, and I sent someone to guard his mansion, and when I saw him entering, I followed him to ask to see him, and the door said that he was not at home. ”

Song Wenxian raised his head and looked at Zhang Dahui, "Wang Chengen is the closest person to the emperor, and his attitude shows that this time we joined the Guanning Army, which really aroused the emperor's attention, which the old man did not expect." ”

"Mr. Song doesn't need to blame himself, in my opinion, the emperor doesn't pay attention to it alone, and Zu Dashou is not noticed by the emperor, and he still lives well."

"That's not what I said." Song Wenxian waved his hand, "When the old man and Lord Chen discussed the seizure of Lushun, one of the considerations was that Liaonan and Houjin were connected, with the examples of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng, the imperial court did not dare to persecute too much, but the relationship with the imperial court was always better to ease, otherwise, it may be okay in Denglai and Shandong, but it will be difficult in other places." ”

Zhang Dahui sneered: "The emperor wants to, but if he wants to check, it is not so easy to check." ”

"Wang Chengen doesn't see you, so what are Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing?"

Zhang Dahui smiled. "So I said that the emperor was not so easy to check, although Cao Huachun didn't see me, but his steward wanted to see me, although he didn't say anything about the things in the palace, but gave some hints, and then Cao Huachun convened a big head meeting in Dongchang on the second day, he knew that half of them had dealings with me, and he used this way to communicate with me. Luo Yangxing is even more so, he just won't let me go to his house. Instead, to meet in the courtyard of his outer house, Luo Yangxing also asked me to be considerate, please say hello to Lord Chen, he will never do anything unfavorable to Dengzhou Town, please Dengzhou Town do not deal with the people he sent. ”

Song Wenxian shook his head and smiled: "That's how the imperial court does things. However, this time, each stall in the East Factory went separately, and there were many people, so it was difficult to ensure that there were no people in it, so they still had to inform Zhou Shifa that they were on guard, and they really couldn't buy it, so they were sent to the sea to feed the fish. ”

Zhang Dacheng sneered, and Song Wenxian turned his head to look at Zhang Dacheng after speaking. "You have to be careful, there are any people near you in the past two days?"

"Not yet, the location of the intelligence bureau will be changed to another location, and this will only be my residence for public appearances." Chief Zhang let out a sigh of relief. "There are many masters in Jinyi Wei who do tracking, and many people still do this business during the Wanli period, if they have enough money, it will be quite difficult for us to deal with it. But you have also seen that even Jiannu's most crappy meticulous works have been able to gain a foothold in Beijing over the years. Jinyiwei and Dongchang ...... It's no longer as brave as it used to be. ”

"It's always good to be careful, prepare more safe rooms, the one you have prepared for yourself, no one should tell you, only you know, and there must be a secret cellar to avoid danger. The Jingshi is so big, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the Jinyi Guard don't have the ability to search next to each other. ”

"Mr. Xie Song mentioned it, the kid remembered it." ……

Liu Min looked at Chen Xin, who was frowning in front of him, and said in surprise: "Jin Shang is so rich? We're going to make a fortune this year. ”

Chen Xin shrugged his shoulders, poured water with an expressionless face, and came back to sit on the drunkard's chair.

"The total number of the three Jin merchants, 1.7 million taels of gold and silver." Chen Xin sighed and said, "Compared with the officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee, it is not much rich, but it is all cash silver, which is more useful to us than those jewels." According to his preliminary interrogation, after Mang Gurtai's East Road Raid Security and Yanqing Prefecture, a lot of silver first went out of the customs, and then came to Zhangjiakou from outside the border, and the looted silver was directly exchanged for goods, and then transported back to Liaodong by the captured Ming people. The last time Jiannu entered Kou Xuanda, they did the same. ”

"Zhong Laosi killed well!" Liu Minyi slapped the table and stood up and said, "I think Zhong Laosi did a good job, what's the use of keeping these traitors if they don't kill them." ”

"It's not Zhong Laosi's idea, it's Song Wenxian's decision, it's nothing to kill some businessmen, he is worried that someone in the court will be unfavorable to our Dengzhou, so he will join Liaozhen to do it together, so that the court will be jealous, but the emperor will be angry. Song Wenxian was also a little reckless this time, could it be that this thing is also contagious? Chen Xin shook his head, "Wu Xiang gave us 200,000 taels, and You Shiwei also gave us 100,000 taels, and the silver is not less, but the emperor is paying attention to the matter of our two towns fighting Zhangjiakou together, and the trick of impeaching each other in the past can't be played anymore, the emperor wants to send people from Dongchang to investigate us, and these 300,000 taels are only enough to block the mouths of these people." ”

Liu Minyou lowered his head and thought about it: "With this silver, our silver money is abundant this year, and the hundreds of thousands of taels in the imperial court are just a fraction." The imperial court can't help Zu Dashou, and naturally can't help us, but this reputation is always bad. ”

Chen Xin agreed: "That's true, after these people from Dongchang come, we should not know, Song Wenxian will deal with it privately, the recent military newspaper is more restrained, and also scold Liaozhen, the Propaganda Department will talk about the defeat of Liaozhen a few more times in Tunpu, and those people will naturally scold the Liao army in the teahouse." ”

"The fans of Dongchang just let them operate in Denglai, won't this be too ......?"

Chen Xin waved his hand and said with a smile: "Of the ten big stalls in the East Factory, four of them have been privately connected with Zhang Dahui, and Luo Yangxing also spoke, we have less than half to deal with, and when they arrive at Denglai, let Song Wenxian do a public relations and find some places to show them, if there is really an elm head, let Zhou Shifa dispose of it." It's just a few things, it's not worth thinking too much, this matter is left to the people below, how should we do it or how to do it. ”

Liu Min nodded slightly. Picked up a booklet on the table, "This is the trading company's economic war plan against Houjin, since last year, we and Lu Zhi and they have controlled the Liaohai trade, and all the islands of the Dongjiang River have established trading company strongholds, and directly purchase Liaodong specialties locally, and now with this condition, I plan to reduce the purchase price of ginseng, mink, and Dongzhu by 30%, and the price of North Korea by 30%. There is profit in the middle. There will be many people who take risks, and sailors need to strengthen inspections. ”

Chen Xin picked it up and looked through it and put it back and said, "Don't lower it, these things are high in price and small in price, which is very easy to transport." There is not much difference between sea and land, if we don't collect it, Liaoxi will also collect it, and now we can't blockade Houjin, so this kind of economic war is of little use. I think that our economic war can be aimed at those people in Liaoxi. ”

"How?"

"The output of the Guanning area is given priority, and there is a lot of salary every year. Prices have always been far higher than other places, this year Wu Xiang and You Shiwei have made a fortune, and the soldiers of the two towns must have made a lot of money in Zhangjiakou, Zhang Dong said that after the Liao army grabbed it. Along the way, they grabbed enough Xuanfu, and they were unwilling to carry the materials they obtained, so they sold them to trading companies cheaply in the middle of the road, which means that Guan Ning will suddenly have a lot of cash this year. But the goods are still the same base. Prices in western Liaoning are bound to rise this year. The second aspect is Houjin, where Zhangjiakou was defeated. Coupled with our deterrence, we can't restore the supply capacity in the short term, the money that Jiannu robbed in Xuanda can't be used for a while, and it is likely to turn to Karaqin, smuggling and buying materials through guò Liaoxi, the third aspect is that Mongolia also robbed money in Xuanda this time, and the silver money in these aspects may turn to Liaoxi, the Guanning area since Yongping Luanzhou was plagued, the local depression, the goods have not been transported smoothly, and the land freight is very high, and if you want to transport goods in large quantities, you have to rely on Tianjin and Liaohai transportation, we can help in both directions, Taking advantage of this opportunity of rising prices, let's help Guan Ningjun raise prices again. ”

Liu Minyou stretched out his hand and nodded at Chen Xin, "Insidious, you want to clean up both Guan Ningjun and Jiannu." ”

Chen Xin said with a smile, "Let the trading company stop supplying cotton cloth, ironware and grain in Tianjin, turn to mass purchases, and raise the prices of these items. ”

"Expert Chen, have you thought about it, with this price difference, the goods of the canal will naturally be concentrated in Tianjin, and our financial resources are not enough to buy so much. And we've also given up a way to make money. ”

"No, after the price of goods in western Liaoning skyrockets, the price in Tianjin will also rise further, and there will be many businessmen who purchase at a high price in Tianjin.

"And then?"

"Then after they sent the goods to Liaoxi, we suddenly supplied a large number of goods to Wu Xiang, suppressed the prices in Liaoxi, and made those businessmen lose a mess. After the collapse of this group of businessmen who usually walk around in Liaoning, other businessmen will wait and see for a while, and then slowly develop to Liaoxi, there will be a commercial gap in Liaoning, we will take the opportunity to control the commerce of Liaoning, and then control the freight, the prices are in our hands, and then raise the prices of Liaoning, and easily earn all the silver in Guanning, the prices in Guanning will rise, and the prices in Liaohai will be strictly investigated for these smuggling, and the prices on the Jiannu side will also skyrocket. ”

Liu Minyou asked, "What if Wu Xiang doesn't buy our things?" ”

"Let's give it to him at a low price, he has no reason not to buy it, he can still earn a sum of money and the Mongols after he buys it, he definitely doesn't have that kind of vision and sentiment, use his own silver to protect those merchants, Wu Xiang has to thank us."

"Well, it's worth a try. It just so happens that the silver in Zhangjiakou is used to do this, and I will mobilize a batch of money from the bank, but the time will be a little later, the most scarce time for Houjin is one or two months before the autumn harvest, and now it is March, let's slowly increase the amount of grain purchased by the canal, reach it in May and June, and let the grain reach the highest point in July, and your Liaonan brigade will also launch a corresponding offensive at that time, forcing Houjin to mobilize, affecting the autumn harvest of Jiannu, and exacerbating their lack of food. The high price will continue until after the golden autumn harvest, and after the Jiannu grain is relieved, the amount of purchases will decline, and we will take the opportunity to suppress the price of Guanning. ”

Chen Xin lay down on the drunkard chair for resting, and sighed comfortably: "This is the power of the business network, what Dongchang Jinyiwei is nothing compared to the trading company." When prices in Liaodong skyrocketed, I will see what Huang Taiji will use to feed those coats, and how to integrate the Eight Banners. As for the Jingshi, I don't even need a trading company, it really makes me anxious, cut off any canal in Shandong, and Jingshi is a dead city. ”

Liu Minyou said with a smile: "Your dream of being an emperor is getting closer and closer, but you still have to remember that Zhu Daichun is the granary of the world, and whether you can control Huguang is the most important thing." ”

Chen Xin immediately started to do it, "I want to send an urgent letter to Zhu Daichun, they are a lone army, although the trading company is deployed all the way, but there are countless people along the way in Huguang, Henan, and it is very difficult for the trading company to carry out its activities alone, and the task of the trading company this year." They had to go up the Yangtze River and establish a waterway with the Central Plains Brigade, and they had to control their own ports. In addition, they also have to guard against the local officials and soldiers, and recruit the displaced people on the spot, and the enemies there are not strong, so they use the old phalanx to protect the grain-producing areas around Wuchang, and control the Han River step by step, anyway, no matter what it is, the fifth battalion will not leave, and the imperial court will turn its face, so let's turn our face. ”